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created by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/tcharman">Timothy Charman</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/message/731239#731239">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hello All</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Sorry to ask this, but I've looked around and haven't seen how to do this.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I have a simple unit test using JbpmJUnitTestCase.  I want to validate my custom work handlers, so I have created a BPMN2 workflow with a work handler in it.  The work handler takes in some parameters and has results that are mapped to a variable.  I know that it is generally working correctly as I can put a script task after the custom task to output the variables to the console.  My unit test creates a parameter map and launches the flow:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><table><tbody><tr><td style=";"><br/></td><td style=";"><br/></td><td style=";">ProcessInstance processInstance = knowledgeSession.createProcessInstance("testprocess", parameterMap);</td></tr><tr><td style=";"><br/></td><td style=";"><br/></td><td style=";">knowledgeSession.startProcessInstance(processInstance.getId());</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I know I can do this in one step using the startProcess method.  This method above works, as does the startProcess method.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I am also able to successfully assert, e.g.:</p><p>assertProcessInstanceCompleted</p><p>assertNodeTriggered</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>However by this time the processInstance is completed (per the assertation).  So the variable context has been destroyed and I cannot use standard JUnit asserts to validate the output, retreived using getVariableValue.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>So does anyone have an idea how I am meant to get variables from the context after the flow is complete?  Or am I meant to watch the variables while the flow is happening, maybe through an event listener?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Thanks for any help.</p></div>
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